Reliability of detecting SARS-CoV antibody for diagnosis of SARS / 中国医学科学院学报

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To discuss the reliability of SARS-CoV antibody detection for SARS diagnosis.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Using SARS-CoV ELISA kit to detect relevant antibody in fresh serum of healthy, fever, probable, and suspect cases.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The positive rate is 0%, 40%, and 95% respectively in healthy, probable, and suspect cases.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>It is reliable to detect SARS-CoV antibody in late suspect patients, but there will be high false-positive result in ordinary fever cases.</p>